Now, the business man pays a certain percentage of his total receipts for labor, another percentage for raw materials, another percentage for his overhead charges, and the rest is profit in various forms, rent to the landlord, interest to the bondholder, dividends to the stockholder.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
It must be admitted that the bondholder does not always come out on top, especially in bad seasons, and Nevis had already decided that the arrest of Winthrop would serve as a warning to any of his neighbors who might feel tempted to evade their liabilities in a similar fashion.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
bondholder who's been bleeding me quite a few years now.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss